Showing posts with label graduation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label graduation. Show all posts

5.23.2012

GRADUATION!

Stockton picks up his actual diploma from Hurricane High School - May 22, 2012 -

The graduates just moments before throwing up their hats in glee - it's over!

Landon joins the Senior Class in singing, WE ARE YOUNG - May 22, 2012

That's one mighty fine looking family and two mighty fine looking graduates....

5.07.2010

End of an Era




High School graduation is in twenty days. She's understandably excited!

Last night was the final orchestra concert - perhaps of her life.

She started violin when she was just 4 or 5. I still remember her very first concert. She was so tiny, and the violin was even tinier. But, oh, she's worked very hard the last nine years; lots of hours of practice and self-discipline.

She's performed at: county fairs, pageants, concerts, more concerts, fiddle contests, church events, nursing homes, family gatherings. To perform, she's worn: cowboy boots and hats, formal attire, street clothes, Sunday best, and orchestra black and white.

Last night two emotions ran high in the Fisher family:

1. her mom was very teary-eyed realizing this was her daughter's last concert.

2. her 16 year-old twin brothers were giving each other jubilant high fives realizing this was the last orchestra concert they would have to attend.

She looked beautiful in orchestra black/white with her shimmery eye shadow above her startling blue eyes and her long brown hair.

Yes, it was the end of a wonderful era....

Thanks, Janessa, for the musical memories to last a lifetime!







If you'd like to hear portions of the final number Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, you can find it


here:




5.13.2009

A Truly Memorable Day!


How to have an (Almost) Perfect Day:

1. Take a large dose of family (that is what made this a not-quite-perfect-day...we were missing Kristi D and Jordan and family). But here's who were there to celebrate with us:
Brent, Jenni, Sean, Janessa, Stockton, Landon
Justin, Amy, Eli, Miles
Jeremy
Allen, Loni
2. Stir in lots of other friends and their famlies: (These are the 4 other nurses from St. George who completed the Nurse Practitioner Degree with Jenni)
Bridget
Amanda
Heide
Melissa
3. Add great pot luck food at a church in Bountiful:
home-made chicken salad sandwiches
Macaroni Salad - the best I've ever had!
Costco potato salad
lots of fresh fruit
home-made cookies, brownies and cheesecake (none of which I ate because I'm cutting back a little on sweets - just a little! )

4. Blend in a short, but fun, fun program with Jeremy singing, Melissa singing a song about the Fab Five Nurses Finally Finishing their degrees after three long years, and Bridget doing a stand-up comedy routine about a day in the life of the fab five sharing a room in the motel!

5. Top with a highlighting event; graduation as a Master of Science in Nursing, and A Family Nurse Practitioner Degree.

6. Sprinkle in a surprise of opening the program to see that Jenni was elected to THREE honor societies for her FANTASTIC grades: Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Theta Tau, Golden Key. ( I just want to add here that not all Master's Programs are created equally...it is hard for any of us to understand the WORK,WORK,WORK that is required to get this degree. Classes, papers, research, patient diagnoses, more papers, traveling to Salt Lake many times, internships with a variety of specialists and doctors, projects, and a master's research paper. And, all of these 5 women did it while working and raising families. Their families deserve lots of praise. Thanks Supportive Brent and kids...you are great!)


Thanks Jenni for a great day!

And, ConGRADulations on being a Nurse Practitioner!

CAMP FISHER